Re: [microblaze-uclinux] XIP / PIC

[David McCullough <davidm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jivin Carr, Vincent lays it down ...
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've asked the below question as part of a longer email a few weeks
> back.  Can anyone answer it this time round?
> 
> > For applications to run directly from flash (XIP) the compiler must 
> > be capable of generating Position Independent Code(PIC) and capable of
> 
> > generating the PIC form of flat executable.
> > 
> > Does the current version of mb-gcc support PIC?
> 
> Going twice..

Ok,  I am not an MB expert,  but I am fairly sure MB doesn't currently
support PIC or XIP based on it's elf2flt support.  As to it's ability
to do so in the future,  someone who knows the arch better will have
answer that one :-)

Cheers,
Davidm

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